Tuesday, November 25, 2003

80-20 is looking for another full-time Special Assistant. ONLYTHE BEST, THE BRIGHTEST AND THE MOST DEDICATED NEED APPLY.

Pay Range: From $30 to $40K, depending on qualification &experience. Some benefit is provided..

Qualifications:(1) A US citizen or Permanent Resident, residing in California (LA andSF preferred) or willing to relocate to those two cities,(2) Computer skills (e-mail, spreadsheet & html),(3) Good in verbal skills,(4) Ability to speak either Chinese or Korean or Vietnamese ispreferred, and(5) Media experience is considered a plus.

Major responsibilities:(1) To reach out to Asian American communities, particularly theIndian Am., Korean Am. and Vietnamese Am. communities,(2) To surf Internet doing research in topics of interest to thePresident and/or Executive Director of 80-20,(3) To recruit Members for 80-20,(4) To assist in making TV, radio and newspaper ads in Korean,Vietnamese and Chinese languages and placing the ads withrespective stations and papers, and(5) To help organizing political events & fundraisers.

Please send an essay of 250 words or less describing why youchoose to apply for such a tough job in the public service area.Include a resume, complete with three references, to S. B. Woo viasbw@udel.edu .

This is a very demanding job. Whenever a political challengerises, whether it is in the evening or during a weekend, we rise tomeet the challenge. In 2004, the challenges will be even stiffer.

SPECIAL NOTES:1. Want to see who are 80-20’s Life Members & generous donors? Gowww.80-20.initiative.net & click on "Life Members/Donors List"2. If you are a member, please see if there is a special note next toyour name. Go http://www.8020initiative.net/memberlist2003.htmlIt means we more info. from you. Go to the top of webpage to decodethe special note.

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

General Clark, one of the 2 leading Democratic presidentialcandidates, phoned 80-20 President S. B. Woo at home last night toapologize for his use of the word "Chinaman." Here is thebackground.

On 11/03, Gen. Clark was interviewed by The National PublicRadio. He said, "I am a fair person.... But if somebody from Russia doessomething right, or a Chinaman does something right, or even aFrenchman, I'm going to say they did something right. Same thing withthe Republicans."

That statement was reported to 80-20 by one of its 650,000supporters. Although it's obvious from the context that Gen. Clarkdidn't mean to use "Chinaman" in a negative sense, Woo thoughtGen. Clark should know that Chinaman was a derogatory term. Woo,therefore, e-mailed one of Clark's strong Korean Am. supporters,Richard Choi Bertsch, asking him to make the general aware of hisfaux pas and consider apologizing to the APA community.

To Woo's great surprise, Gen. Clark phoned him at home at 5:40p.m. yesterday to PERSONALLY DELIVER THE APOLOGY. Such agesture seems a very positive reflection on Clark's leadership quality.

In their chat, Clark also expressed strong support for helpingthe APAs break the glass ceiling. He stated that if elected President, hewill order the Labor Department to enforce Executive Order 11246,should a Congressional hearing or a Labor Department studyconclude that there is a glass ceiling above APAs. E.O. 11246 is avery powerful law that has been enforced on behalf of African Ams. andwomen, but NOT APAs, to help them break glass ceilings. Equalenforcement of that law will be 80-20's single crucial goal forcampaign season 2004.

Gen. Clark's verbal promise makes him the FIRST presidentialcandidate to do so. 80-20 will soon write to BOTH Republican andDemocratic presidential candidates seeking their written promises toenforce E. O. 11246 on our behalf. To find out more about the E. O.,go http://80-20initiative.net , click on E.O. 11246.

Note that the two leading Dem. candidates, Gov. Dean and GenClark have both made sincere effort to reach out to our communitythrough 80-20. Gov. Dean helped 80-20 raise funds in Los Angeles bybeing a keynoter. We trust that President Bush will soon do the same.Together, we shall overcome.

A BIG THANKS to members of the Election Monitor Comm. for a goodjob -- Kathleen To (Chair), Larry Ho, Jing-Li Yu, Shangyou Zhang.

Once again, 80-20 demonstrated that it is an open, democraticand transparent organization that goes by the rule of law -- its ownbylaws which are accessible via the web site. In addition, 80-20 iseffective in fighting for YOU. Please do YOUR share to support it.http://80-20initiative.net

Monday, November 03, 2003

(1) MORE POLITICALLY MATURE:Many APAs used to think that a bloc vote is an extremist's methodto win equal opportunity for themselves. Well, David Broder, oftenconsidered the Dean of American Political Reporters, just wrote anarticle describing a bloc vote as "one of the unnoticed glories ofAmerican life -- the entry of yet another immigrant groupinto the mainstream of the nation's politics." "That is howthe Irish, the Italians, the Poles and other 19th-century immigrantsbecame" equal partners in the making of the American Dream. Seehttp://www.80-20initiative.net/broder.html.

More APAs will follow 80-20's bloc vote in 2004. We aremore mature politically.

(2) A CLOSE CONTEST HEIGHTENS OUR IMPORTANCE:"Bush may be able to win in 2004 without winning CA.But Democrats cannot possibly win the next P.E.without winning CA." -- a belief shared by most experts.

80-20 is the strongest in CA that has 55 electoral votes. In 2000, 80-20 delivered 70% of the APA votes to Gore whom it endorsed, accordingyo a poll partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Seehttp://www.80-20initiative.net/PNAAPs.html.

(3) APA VOTERS IN CA UP FROM 6.5% TO 8%Up till recently, the most optimistic estimate of APA voters in CAis 6.5%. The 2000 Census says it is actually 7.4%. Source: CurrentPopulation Survey, November 2000. In 2004, the % will easily top 8%.

GOP lost CA by 11 points in 2000. If a bloc of APA voters of 6%will change from voting Dem. to voting for Bush. It'll be a swing of 12points! That is how pivotal we are in the 2004 presidential election.

(4) 80-20 IS STRONGER

80-20 Email List 80-20 Members2000 450,000 Zero2003 650,000 2000

What do we want? We want EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & JUSTICE.The political party that does the most DEEDS to help us achieve thatgoal will get our endorsement for the 2004 presidential election.That is what an election in America is all about! Join 80-20 to helpyourself & your children.

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